History of Clinical Psychology

Discovering History of Psychology

Cognitive Psychology: History

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Psychology and its history

During its relatively short history as a distinct discipline, psychology was accompanied by a historiography that projected the idea of psychology back to ancient times when such an idea did not in fact exist. As the modern discipline proliferated into a collection of weakly connected sub-disciplines, the textbook image of psychology’s ancient essence suggested that, in spite of the current mes...

A History of Personality Psychology

Frank Dumont presents personality psychology with a fresh description of its current status as well as its prospects. Play, sex, cuisine, creativity, altruism, pets, grieving rituals, and other often neglected topics broaden the scope of this fascinating study. This tract is imbued with historical perspectives that reveal the continuity in the evolving science and research of this discipline ov...

Russian psychology: a critical history

proceedings elucidate a central historic paradox articulated by the keynote speaker. Wilbur Cohen was former HEW administrator and Secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He directed passage of the Medicare law, then saw it implemented. Cohen theorized in his keynote address that Medicare "was born more of social conviction than of research findings". Ironically this publication, which ...